sex education classes cancelled in Quebec

March 11, 2008 · By

The Quebec education ministry has decided to cancel formal sex education classes in Quebec — a one of its kind move in Canada. Instead of a regular classes, all teachers of all disciplines are expected to field questions that students may have. Students are encouraged to ask ANY of their teachers from ANY of their other classes questions about sex. The intention is to have a holistic (I am not to sure what that means) approach to understanding sex. Some people are worried that students will not learn essential information.

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I praise this move because sex education is really simple: penis in vagina, sperm fertilizes egg, nine months pregnancy. Everything else is up to debate. My guess is that students today know enough by the time they reach high school about the non-controversial stuff.

Nevertheless, I would offer a compromise teaching method by assembling all of the students in the gymnasium or theater and have a seminar: one class with everybody in the school. Hell, even let the students discuss it all together.

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3 Responses to “sex education classes cancelled in Quebec”

  1. Foster Karcha on March 11th, 2008 11:29 am [#]

    “My guess is that students today know enough by the time they reach high school about the non-controversial stuff”

    You guess is laughable. I could not believe the ignorance of teenagers regarding basic human biology, nevermind sexual reproduction, safe sex and the subsequent moral and ethical questions.

  2. Smarter than Ezra on March 11th, 2008 8:27 pm [#]

    http://xkcd.com/194/

    New Sex Ed Method in Quebec, perhaps?

  3. Charles Anthony on March 13th, 2008 5:25 am [#]

    Foster,

    Are you referring to the same teenagers today who know more about computers, the internet and communications technologies than their parents do?
    or Are you talking about teenagers from a previous era?

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